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SLIFF 2019: Master Class: Stop-Motion Animation with Brad Schiff From LAIKA Studios November 9th – We Are Movie Geeks

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SLIFF 2019: Master Class: Stop-Motion Animation with Brad Schiff From LAIKA Studios November 9th

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Master Class: Stop-Motion Animation with Brad Schiff From LAIKA Studios takes place Saturday November 9th at 2:00pm as part of this year’s St. Louis International Film Festival. This is a FREE event that will take place at the Sverdrup Complex 123 on the campus of Webster University ( 8300 Big Bend Boulevard, 63119). Read a 2014 We Are Movie Geeks interview with Brad Schiff HERE. Brad will also host a FREE screening of the LAIKA Studios film MISSING LINK at The Missouri History Museum at 11am November 9th

Native St. Louisan Brad Schiff is an Oscar nominee for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for “Kubo and the Two Strings” and one of this year’s Cinema St. Louis Award honorees. He serves as the animation supervisor of LAIKA Studios, which specializes in stop-motion animation, a process that involves moving objects — e.g., puppets, models, or clay figures — in small increments, taking a photograph after each tiny change, and then assembling the individual images into a moving picture. LAIKA’s run of Oscar nominees for Best Animated Feature include “Coraline,” “ParaNorman,” “The Boxtrolls,” and “Kubo.” The studio’s most recent film, “Missing Link,” screens for free at this year’s SLIFF. Schiff made his first animated films in high school here in St. Louis and discovered stop-motion animation in college, when he developed a passion for the form. His career encompasses television (“Celebrity Deathmatch,” “The PJs,” “Gary and Mike”) and commercials, and he’s worked on such non-LAIKA stop-motion-animated films as Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride” and Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” and “Isle of Dogs.”SLIFF Special Event